Beth has recently retired from clinical dental hygiene after practicing for over 35 years. She loved her work, which took her from affluent suburban perio practices to urban Medicaid practices. She also worked in nursing homes, which showed her the dire oral conditions of residents in skilled nursing facilities across the board. She spent her own money to buy supplies for in-home care for relatives of patients who were home bound.

She began her Orofacial Myofunctional journey in 2018 in Chicago with AOMT. She then took Sandra Coulson’s online course. She began to “pound the pavement” in Rochester, NY, to spread the word to the dental community on the benefits of OMT. She took a course in hands-on therapy from Walt Fritz, PT, who instructs internationally in Voice and Swallowing Therapy. Her training as a Reiki practitioner helped her provide her patients with a soothing touch as well as training the tongue what to do. She found Shirley Gutkowski, founder of PrimalAir, LLC, in 2019. She has been seeing patients online since the inception of the practice. She is enjoying passing on knowledge to new therapists as they join. PrimalAir, LLC, is a leader in telehealth therapy for OMT.

Beth’s other passion for over 20 years has been dental trauma. She created
“Serdentity” in 2006 to get information on dental fear to professionals. She believes challenging patient behaviors are based in fear. Once she understood the airway, all her other research made sense. She has given her talk “Roots of Dental Trauma” to dental groups online and at several conferences.

She has a BA in English prior to her dental hygiene education. She has made use of her writing skills by publishing articles in RDH magazine and the “Serdentity” Book. She is also a singer and actress, which makes her presentations entertaining as well as educational.